MAD

The best book of poetry I have ever read. Really touches the heart. I reccomend it highly!!!!!

I loved MAD magazine when I was a kid. And I never got tired of reading the various MAD collection books. This one is typical:
-An Academy Award spoof
-A Drive-In movie Primer
-A few Don Martin comics (my favorite)
-A MAD look at Firemen, by Sergio Aragones
-Spoofs of new Products, new inventions or advertisements.
...And much more.

I still like to read through this book from time to time.

--George Stancliffe

I'm stunned by the impact this book had on me. Virginia Holman's beautifully written memoir is remarkable and gripping. The author's story traces the development of schizophrenia in her mother when the author was just a girl. I was fascinated and horrified how her mother's delusions began to play into the girl's own childhood fantasies. In one terrifying scene, you wonder whether the child herself has also slipped over the edge of reality. As she grows older, she has to confront the awful impact of her mother's disease on the family. While it is painful to witness the trials this family had to endure, there is also a warmth and love that bonds the family together. Ms. Holman's honest telling of her story is a tribute to her own strength and the strength of her family. This memoir is a valuable contribution to those who wish to understand the impact of mental disease on the family and should serve as a touchstone for those who have family members afflicted with mental illness.

When Jasmine accidentally stepped on his toe, Rupert got very angry. He grew horns, fangs, and tail to show how angry he was. Then Jasmine apologized, taking his anger away.

Learning to control anger can be quite a challenge for young children. Author Mary House and illustrator Annie Applefield capture the feelings of children perfectly in the bold words and brilliant illustrations of RUPERT GETS MAD. The end result is a lesson that will serve as a springboard for parents and educators to a discuss anger, forgiveness, and friendship with youngesters. Very highly recommended.

Meet the Madsen family, Father, Mother, Albert, Dagmar, baby Ena, and our narrator, Mathilda. They lived aboard a four-masted sailing ship, captained by their father, that carried cargo all over the world in the late 1800s. As Mathilda tells us, their accommodations were luxurious, large bedrooms, fine furnishings, and even a marble fireplace in the main saloon, and their life aboard ship was rich with adventure and full of fun. "Unlike most homes, our didn't stay put. At night, the ship kept moving, so every morning we woke up far away from where we'd gone to sleep." They had the huge deck for play, a menagerie of pets, including a pig, kangaroo, mongoose, and monkey, astronomy lessons by night, and geography lessons as they sailed the world by day. Theirs was a unique and fascinating life, and when in port they always wanted to know, "When do we sail? When are we going back out to sea?" Gloria and Ted Rand have authored an intriguing and informative story, based on entries from the journal kept by Ena and her father, Captain Madsen. The engaging text is gripping and full of emotion, and beautifully enhanced by Mr Rand's expressive artwork. Together, word and art pull you into the story, and transport you to the high seas and another time and place. With an afterword and photo gallery to complete and personalize the story, Sailing Home is an amazing and entertaining book that's perfect for youngsters 7-10, or as a read-aloud story the entire family can share.

i really like sergio aragones work. the problem is all of his books are out of stock. i would really like it if you people at amazon would get a new shipment of his books so i could buy them.i would buy them all. they are some of the funniest books i have ever looked at..

Reviewer: A reader from New Zealand Peak of a climber's career

7 Summits Solo, (Summit, USA) by Robert Mads Anderson To Everest via Antarctica, Robert Mads Anderson Reviewed by Neil Nelson, The Evening Standard, Wellington, New Zealand Saturday, February 24, 1996

Having spent the past 20 years scaling some of the world's most difficult peaks, American-born Aucklander Robert Anderson set himself a new challenge: to climb the highest peak on each of the world's seven continents.

As an added challenge, he elected to climb them solo.

Ultimately, he failed in his bid, with Everest getting the better of him on two separate occasions. But failure to stand on the top of the world's highest peak doesn't diminish Anderson's achievement or the highly readable accounts he has written of his adventures.

As the price tags would suggest, the two books which have resulted from his seven summits project are totally different.

7 Summits Solo is a large-format, lavishly produced, 160-page volume which includes dozens of superb colour photographs taken by Joe Blackburn during the expedition (Note, nearly all photos in the book are Anderson's).

Anderson's account of the expedition is essentially a précis of the story he tells in To Everest via Antarctica. The 220 page Penguin book (Stackpole Books, USA) contains just a handful of photographs, but includes a far more detailed account of Anderson's adventures.

During the past decade or so, I've read numerous accounts of climbing expeditions: this one rates as one of the best.

Unlike some mountaineers, who feel compelled to describe in minute detail everything they did during the expedition, Anderson concentrates more on the adventures he had actually getting to the mountain.

He admits it is more of a travel book than a book about climbing and that he wrote it for a broader market.

Some chapters have little to do with climbing at all. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in Anderson's descriptions of his travels in Russia, late in 1992, after conquering Mt Elbrus, Europe's highest peak. With Elbrus out of the way, and three weeks left on his Russian visa, Anderson decided the opportunity to see some of Russia was too good an opportunity to miss.

With the Russia of old rapidly being split into a series of new countries, and new border crossings appearing at random, it was decided a large bus would be the easiest way of moving around. One was soon found and with several companions Anderson set off for a fascinating tour of parts of Russia which had seldom seen Western tourists. The tales he relates of his journey make for absorbing and humorous reading.

With a degree in writing and a career spent mainly in the advertising industry - the business he set up in New Zealand and subsequently sold helped fund his seven summits project - Anderson wastes few words. He has an economical, easy-to-read style and knows how to tell a good story.

While the price of 7 Summits Solo means it's unlikely to appear on best-seller lists, To Everest via Antarctica deserves to be. One of the most enjoyable books I read in 1995, I look forward to reading of Anderson's further adventures.

...well, I'm not really a junkie, 'fan' would be more like it. And these aren't really confessions, but my usual two cents. What am I doing here, come to think of it, I don't even like Mad Magazine...

Just kidding.

I remember getting all those great 25 cents (cheap) magazines with 'What Me Worry' Alfred E. Newman on the cover. That boy was either in some kinda dressing up of a recent movie, one of the Beatles, or hanging out with his 'What Me Worry' presidential prototype Richard M. Nixon. We gotta kick out of any of the Don Martin lunacy--his characters were always from the Plastic Man school of slapstick in which bodies and limbs were smooshed and squooshed into shapes whose outcome depended on what the force of impact was. A fish slap made a man's face turn into a fish.

There were the great Spy vs Spy series, Scenes We'd Like to See, and those movie and television parodies. All for 35 cents (cheap, and later adjusted for inflation).

Then, somehow me and my brothers ran into the Signet paperback issues of old Mad that we'd missed when it was edited by Harvey Kurtzman at EC Comics--talk about a goldmine. In those days the artists--the great Will Elder, Jack Davis, Wally Wood and Kurtzman himself--had each panel chocked full of idiocy, lunacy and craziness. Nothing was spared of their rubbery wits. I recall a Popeye parody done by Will Elder in which Popeye had to kick a cigar smoking, razor stubbled Swee'Pea's a--. This wasn't what one was used to seeing in the comics. I kinda miss those days...sigh!

Anyway, if you can get ahold of any of the Mad Magazine Signet paperbacks, --the earlier, the better--then, you will have found one great piece of Americana and the overall best in comic book humor.

I have this edition and it is hilarious! I've loved MadLibs for ages, and this is definitely one of my favorites!

This is the AMS reprint of the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam Mahapuranam out of the series of the Sacred Books of the Hindus, translated by Swami Vijnananada of the Ramakshrisha Math. Vijnanananda only continued translating a Sanskrit text, if he meditated long enough to have a spiritual vision of the gods involved in the story (see small biography about him published by the Ramakrishna Order). The Devibhagavatam is a full fledged Mahapurana out of the Indian time of collecting all available religous and spiritual material into the Puranas. The tradition is Shaktism, Sri Vidya, that means, that Devi the godess is the central principle and force behind this world, even behind the trimurti. Besides endless fights of the gods it contains other spiritual advice and hagiographies of saints. It's a spiritual compendium of the highest order (within Hinduism, of course). It is to expect that Motilal Banarsidass will also translate this Purana in it's series containing all major Puranas of India.